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Twenty years ago, a black and white movie [Crazy Clerk] that cost only over 27,000 US dollars, made a big splash at the Sundance Film Festival. The film’s director Kevin Smith even completed it by Convenience Store. The dreamy transformation of a wage earner to an independent film rookie king. In the following year, Smith offered a larger scale and sharper viewpoint. Although the film’s bleak box office failed to feed the publisher Universal Pictures’ purse, Kevin Smith’s gain was not small, and he not only got acquainted with Ben Affleck and Jason Lee are two good brothers, and the film’s supporting actress Joey Lauren Adams has been chased. And these three people also assisted Smith in his next "home run"-[Guess·Love·Find]. Fans of Kevin Smith who are confidants of the play often like the six works that will have "Jie and Bob" ([Crazy Store Clerk], [Cool Clan], [Guess·Love·Find], [Fun Tian Article], [Bai Luck Bitch], [Crazy Shop Clerk II]) are collectively referred to as "View Askew (Kevin Smith’s production company name) universe", because in these stories, we will see the same group of people playing different roles, sometimes guest starring, sometimes starring, just like a theater company in different Different scripts played in seasons. If we divide these six works based on the displacement between the place of the story and New Jersey, we can call the first three separately the "New Jersey Trilogy" because of the comparison. In the small pattern of [Crazy Store Clerk], [Cool Clan] and [Guess·Love·Seeking], Kevin Smith in the period of [Rage Offensive] clearly began to deviate from New Jersey in the narrative center, and [Bai Lian Jian Ke] even expanded the territory to Hollywood. Even if you put [Guess·Love·Find] in the coordinate system of Kevin Smith’s own work from another perspective, you will find that this film is exactly the watershed of his work— —Forward, it is full of deep understanding of life's trivialities; in the future, it is striving to enter the fertile soil of entertainment. In the "New Jersey Trilogy", Kevin Smith's authorship is also the most prominent, with a strong autobiographical nature Needless to say, [Cool Clan] is a full release of his comic complex, and this [Guess·Love·Xun] truly combines feelings, mischief, and sadness. Actually, it is [ During the filming, Kevin Smith was already conceiving this new script, which incorporates the real experience between him and Adams, as well as the story he tailored for Jason Lee. As for Ben A Flake, maybe it was Smith’s own projection. So, before the surplus temperature of [Cool Clan] disappeared, Kevin Smith rushed to Miramax with the fragments of the story in his mind. Headquarters, he described his new film plan, and proposed a plan for Affleck, Jason Lee and Adams to be the starring roles. When the Miramax people listened to Kevin’s narration, they first came up with the project They became interested, but they offered a condition, that is, they hope to use the famous Jon Stewart, David Hummer and Drew Barrymore of "Friends" to replace Affleck and others as the leading actors. In exchange, Miramax would write a check for $3 million for this movie. Smith listened, shrugged and raised his eyebrows like "Silent Bob", and said, "I still If you want to use my actor, you can wait until the film is finished before you decide whether to release it. "Although the cooperation matters were not negotiated, because the Weinstein brothers really liked the story, they still gave Smith US$250,000 in production funding. Next, Smith had only [the cool guy] budget 1/24. of Qian started the filming of [Guess·Love·Find]. Putting up the middle finger to the mainstream Quentin ranked [Guess·Love·Find] at the top of his personal favorite movie list in 1997, and Kevin Smith also said that this movie is his favorite among all his works. Part of it. Even though the reduction in budget limits the scale of the movie, fortunately Kevin Smith still guards the freedom of creation, and his endless mockery of mainstream values can also be continued in [Guess·Love·Find]. This time, he set his sights on three "non-mainstream" characters: two cartoonists and a lesbian, and gave them an anti-traditional alternative triangle relationship, that is, Holden as a male became two men. The one that was "competed" in the relationship between a man and a woman. Holden maintains his love affair with his "Lace Edge" girlfriend Alissa, and at the same time has to face all sorts of obstructions from his good friend Benj, who has wonderful affection for him. The conversation between Holden and Alyssa on the swing is a bombardment of mainstream values by Kevin Smith. Through the conversation between the two, he satirized the "humble opinion" of blindly following the public. Holden asked Eliza: "Why do you like women?" Eliza asked in the opposite direction: "Why do you like men?" In this regard, Holden could only use "Because that's normal" as a prevarication. He made a choice. Most of the basis for this is based on the view that "everyone else does it like this". And the subsequent discussion on the topic of "what determines whether a woman is a virgin" even magnified Holden’s "topic first" problem. He was like a person who first convicted the defendant and then was busy looking for evidence. The prosecutor of the material evidence read one after another just as excuses, but his expression was so righteous and rigorous, making the entire dialogue seem absurd and ridiculous. Deeply influenced by Marvel comics, guest appearances will always be Kevin Smith’s unsatisfactory trick. If all the eight aunts and six aunts in [Crazy Shop Assistant] are all drawn to run the game, it’s done in the face of horrible production funding. Since then, Kevin Smith still loves to invite acquaintances to guest appearances. It is nothing more than falling in love with this money-saving and powerful trick. He used the way Stan Lee created the "Avengers" to shoot. The film was also very successful. As a result, we saw "crazy radio" Brian O'Haloran, Ethan Supley and other "old guys" continue to find a sense of existence through frequent appearances, while Casey Affleck and Matt Damon They also all made their debut in soy sauce, and the "New Jersey Gang" began to take shape after the film's baptism. Kevin Smith still remembers [Star Wars]. After [Crazy Store Clerk] used Landau’s mouth to make a "deafening" interpretation of [Star Wars], In this film, he used the mouth of a black homosexual to talk about [Star Wars]. This time the object of ridicule became Lando Carrissing and the "deep racism" in [Star Wars]. Another thing worth mentioning is hockey. In [Cool Clan], Brody was lying on the bed and playing a game of ice hockey. He touched the bottom line of his girlfriend's patience, then fell out, and in [Guess·Love·Find], Hall The place where Den and Alyssa turned their faces was also at the scene of an ice hockey game. Although Kevin Smith himself likes ice hockey very much, it seems to have quietly become a sign of his breakup in the movie. The besieged city of love "Jie and Bob", in the eyes of movie fans, is the signature of Kevin Smith's movie, both exaggerated and true. When they first appeared on the stage, they were like the comic version of Estragon and Vladimir, spending time in front of the convenience store, waiting for their "Godot". They are fat and thin, taciturn, and swear words. They appear as partners in all of Kevin Smith's early movies. The role of these two buddies is not just gag, especially Kevin Smith himself." Silent Bob" corner. Sometimes he is like a reminder board to guide the character to the next step. He will point out the way out for the confused protagonist at the most critical moment: the phrase he left behind in [crazy shop assistant], "There is no grass in the end of the world, man , But there are not many who will give you lasagna when you work. Most of them will only be unfaithful to you." I wake up Dante, who is hesitating between his current girlfriend and ex-girlfriend; Here, Smith gave the power of "God Appearance" to the guest star Stan Lee, whose words ignited Brody's remnant enthusiasm; when it came to [Guess·Love·Find], Smith gave Bao Bao the unprecedented Uncle gave a three-minute "speech" and directly pointed out the meaning of the title "Chasing Amy". It’s not so much that "Pursuing Amy" is regretting the loss of a relationship worth maintaining, but rather it has entered an irreversible state. For example, in the story of Bob's story, the couple who parted ways with each other's bad words, or Huo Erden finally gathered the three for a showdown, which was doomed to a losing end. This irreversible state is precisely the suffering that countless people have been experiencing. Bangui said: "Some doors should never be opened." Because some doors can never be closed after they are opened, and the world behind the door always attracts people to turn the temptation handle. However, what is unique about Kevin Smith is that even if he tirelessly instills ill-fated advice into the protagonist’s ears, the ending may not be consummate. For example, [Crazy Clerk] didn’t explain Dante’s choice at the end, [ Guess·Love·Seeking] The three of them face confrontation There is nothing but nostalgia for each, [the silly clan] has a happy ending, but it is more like a healing dream. After all, the reality TV show in the department store implies the texture of the dream itself. The Kevin Smith who filmed [Crazy Store Clerk] believes that "action is more than everything", either do it or shut up. He is extremely disdainful of the life attitude of doing nothing and complaining all day long. In [Guess·Love·Search], he seemed to be shaken. Although Bob still said inspiring lines like "Either do or don't do it, there is nothing to try or not", but Holden's attempt still The three protagonists all entered the state of "searching for Amy" in unison. However, it is this little bit of vacillation that adds a weird sadness to the movie, making the ending look both sad and charming. Published in the October 2014 issue of "Watching Movies Midnight Show"
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